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KING'S + PRINCESS
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TO-DAY
See the sensational SILVANA PAMPANINI in
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Present
PIERRE BRASSEUR SILVANA PAMPANINI
IN
"LA TOUR DE NESLE"
{THE TOWER OF NESLE)
From the Suge fly by
ALEKANDAR DUMAS
and GAILLARDET
Jac J
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Singkong tum
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Dil by
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MAURICE SAUREL
With English Subtition
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
KING'S at 11.30 a.m.
Martin & Lewis in
"MY FRIEND IRMA
GOES WEST"
[
PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. Disney Techni, Cartoon "PINOCCHIO"
& free sample of FOUR Cows Conds. Milk
Admission: $1.00, $1.50
PRINCESS THEATRE
OPENS Bth MAY
At 7.15 & 9.30 p.m. Thereafter Dally 2.30, 7.15 G 9.30 p.m.
LATIN
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1956.
FILMS
The New York and Great World cinemas have shown two good British films dur- ing the last week, unfor- tunately for only three days ench. The belter of the two, "The Prisoner" slipped quletly In on Wednesday who had and many people been looking forward to it for a long time, as a result. hart of the good reviews it gained in London, hardly had fim to realise it was on before it was off again.
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his victim,
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faith of the Cardinal, nothing can stop the downhill run of his
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The degradation of the Cor- cinal---inagnificently portrayed
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Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films-
In Pictures
Above is a picture from The Tender Trap" starring The Frank Sinatra, Debbie tepnolds and Celeste Holm. picture below (left) shows Gary Cooper in the flim, "The Court-Martiat of Billy Mitchell while the one on the right show's a scene from "On The Threshold Of Space".
Lin's
This is a in depending on- dictater is remarkable. He plays to Hitler just before their joint Jaustent in- spicide, and her renity in the of the interplay of per- tirely
on the part like The baille of wills strumeni, sonalities
stating lace of the hopelessness of the
between the
prisoner and t and raving, at others exhibiting situation suggests deep feeling to whom captor is as exclung, although some of the purpose that must for the strange mun
devotion. entirely have driven him to the top and the has given her place almost
the bloodiest
1 takes
in an rovm,
02
There at Suid others showing a gently swirly the must
fist fight or moving duci,
another fine There is
p- formance froin Wilfred Lawson
ness admost vivative of pity.
He is petured as being sur rounded by self-seekers men who are afraid to tell him
{1:3 the earthy, simple-minded the truth. gaoler and he has cleverly been given a few really funny lines which case the tension when it Is becoming almost unbearable, From every point of view this in very good film.
Exit Hitler
ar
many
touches--the macabre clever
drunken
dancing of a canteen worker the underground bunkers as the last hours approach, the feeling of actually being in a clly under bombardiment that Is so
Well As
the news dught in one secne, and one pics of bad
flooderl follows another and it is obvious dreadful silence of the
war Iv look, the underground subways under that the
realises, ile the onc atmosphere in the underground which,
hundreds
of men. headquarters grows more and bodies
children drowned women and plans hysterical, Hitler more
senseless order to coumter-Stucks on his map board by Hitler's that his staff know are ridiculous release the waters of the river
"The Last Act" does not allow because of the news they are withholding from him.
one to forget it easily. He alrately tercams and
12:0
edericss The Red Herring
"The Last Act“ though not a happy picture is very good cinema. It shows the mutters last days of Hitler, when, omecis surrounding him accept exhibiting a marked streak with varying degrees of calm the of insanity, he lurks in his fact that their Fuhree's mind is
o longer balanovi. underground headquarters
surpussing
Albi Perha beneath Berlin, giving Skoda Is the young captain, orders and countermanding played by Oskar Werner, Iden of istic, yet ruthless as his train them with the absence ing has taught him to be, he is logic of the mentally de- believable and human, and ranged.
well as being able to act, has a pleasant appearence.
The role of Hitler in ably play ed by Albin Skoda, whose Lotte Tobisch has ormail part physical resemblance to the as Eva Braun, who was married
ORIENTA
TAL
AIR CONDITIONCO
SHOWING TO-DAY
2.30-5.30—7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
4-Track, HI-FI. Directional Stereophonic Sound!
VIVIEN LEIGH KENNETH MORE
THE DEEP BLUE SEA CINEMA SCOPE®
Baker of RTEYTOPHONIC SOUND
Este PORTMAN Emlyn WILLIAMS
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW, TO-MORROW AT 12.30
- AT REDUCED ADMISSION PRICES "ALADDIN AND HIS LAMP" Technicolor Film
Stephen Boyd is worth watching. He is a new per- aonality introduced in "The Man Who Never Was" and Rusceptible will appeal to females to a greater degree than will the usually seduc- tive Gloría Grahame to the males.
I'm sorry to say she looks rather untidy in this picture. I've admired her greatly in the past-her kiss or kill methods with the predatory malo hás been guaranteed to bring to life the dullest' film. But in this picture even her ingenuity has been overtaxed."
There's scant reason for her apperrance in the picture; apparently she has realised this and has adopted a bystander's attitude towards her part.
If Gloria Grühame is de trop. Webb is an integral part of "The Man Who Never Was". It is his brain that has conceived the idea of planting a body in the sea where the enemy will find it, complete with top secret documents purporting to cover plans for a sea landing in Greeco
The fact that "they constitute u red brgiaig time the real landing is to i
* 66 made in Biely" w the Whole point of the pintura, - 2111, the
enemy be taken in, or will they stello dond fish7
A great deal of the book dealt with the intricate preparatlong for the hoax and personalities were involved only when absolutely necessary. To create more action, in the picture the
ure made to seem enemy gullible than
book. which midle
less
19,9
they were, The Is based
Oh fnc!
any
mention of spicion by the enemy:
they
swallowed the bait completely. But in the Airn, for added spice, there is an Irish agent in the pay of the enemy who comes London
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to mif out the pos-
sibility of the body being a
"plan"
This is the port taken by Stephen Boyd.
Cillion Webb's portrayal uĺ The major who controls Opera- Burt Mincement la goost 11:1 completely different from ble Mr Belvedere roles, This is an exciting picture.
Censored
"La Tour de Nesle"
has quite obviously received. the oltention of the een- sor's scissors, but even so it runs for almost two hours, and in common with many French pictures, still suc- ceeds in being too long.
ZIN
It is based on a story by the tonous writer of rambling tales,
Alexande Dumas, anel usual, pivols on the Pareless habit of milaying children that
1 by 124 was possessed gentry of the 13th century
Silvane
11: Pampanini Fading lady -Laus X's Queen Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, and her appearance is very lovely
Pierce Brasseur too, in spite of being on the plump side, has t interesting face and play his part with gusio,
The photography could hove been more imaginative and the sets aza Only 100 obviously the manufactured however,
culour is
good.
working knowledge
of
French is almost essential to understand the plot, for in many one places the sub-liles for sequence have been lackerl on to those of the previous ones, with add results.
For the rest i suppos cinemagoers who like that sort of thing might be drawn to the picture in the hope of seeing how much the consor hay allowed in the way of orgies, bul even they may be disappointed,
New Films
At A Glance
SHOWING
A
ROOVER and LIBERTY: "The Swan": A prin. cts, a prince Ed commoner. Grace Kelly, Alec
Louis Guinness, Jourdan.
KING'S and PRINCESS:
"Lail
Tour de Neale": at Louis X'a
Exceasen
Court. Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampantní,
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Stranger On Horseback": A western. McCrea, John
Jori
Carradine.
of
QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "The Last Act":
film Outstanding Hitler's last ten daya. ROXY and BROADWAY: **The Man Who Never Wag":
A war story. Clifton Webb, Gloria Graliame.
COMING
A
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"The Tender Trap": musical. Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds. KING'S
and PRINCESS: Safart": "Champagne Rita Hayworth and Aly
OR holiday Kan
iri
Africa "Female On
The Beach": Romantle drama a la Crawford. Joan Crawford, Jerr Chandler. NEW YORK and GREAT
Top WORLD!
Gun". A western. Sterling Hayden, Karen Booth, and QUEENS
ALHAM- BRA: Intermezzo": 4 re-issue of the Ingrid Bergman, Leille Howard plotare. "One Man Tho 1925 marul seil- of
America? chell. Gary
ROXY and
Cooper,
Charton WAY:
On the Threshold of Epilco US Air Force experiments with high Guy flying misshines, Madon, Virginis Leith.
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★
N"AT LAST!
ON THE SCREEN
THE LAST TEN DESPERATE DAYS
OF HITLER
THE LAST ACT
A German Film with
English Subtitles
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AT 11.30 A.M.
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The Love Story of A Princess
M-G-M presenta in CINEMASCOPE and COLOR
GRACE KELLY ALEC GUINNESS
LOUIS JOURDAN
"THE SWAN"
SUNDAY MATINEE HOOVER at 12.00
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"MANY RIVERS TO CROSS"
Robert Taylor Eleanor Parker
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: REDUCED ADMISSION LIBERTY at 12.30 M-G-M COLOUR CARTOONS
R ́O`X YƐ BROADWAY
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE STRANGEST MILITARY HOAX OF WORLD WAR III
THE MAN
WHO
NEVER
WAS
CUFTON WEBB GLORIA GRAHAME
CINEMASCOPE
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Produced by
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m, ROXY: At 12.00 Noon
Kirk Douglas Silvana Mangano in "ULYSSES"
Color by Technicolor
A 20th Century-Fox release
A SELECTED PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
Presented by.
Warner Brothers Pictures
Reduced Admission
Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts. Broadway: $1.20 & 70 Ctx.
CAPITOL RITZ
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKS
SPELLBOUND
GRID BERGMAN
GREGORY PECK
Sunday Morning Show At 12.80.p.m.. "DESERT LEGION" Technicolor
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
A LOVE STORY...possibly one of "the greatene)
Planic
To-morrow Speelal Show
At 12.30 p.in, w
"DAWŃ AT. SOCORRO” Color by Technicolor